With the addition of Yahoo! Answers to Bebo’s new application platform, Bebo users are now able to tap into each other’s knowledge and expertise, benefiting themselves, their friends and the wider Yahoo! Answers community of millions of users. Bebo users can publish and share their Q&As with their friends and promote their reputation and participation in the Yahoo! Answers community via a module displayed on their user profile. They can also ask and answer questions directly within Bebo, and view Q&As from their Bebo friends.

We’ve also launched three new Yahoo! Music video channels — Top Music, Rock and Urban — so users can subscribe to the latest videos or add their favorite songs to their Bebo profile for all their friends to enjoy.

By making Yahoo! products and services more accessible off of the Yahoo! Network, we hope you find it easier to interact and share interests with your own communities. Don’t forget to let us know what you think by commenting here.

Dan Peters
Yahoo! UK

A clear example of this is Yahoo!’s practice of integrating knowledge from the Yahoo! Answers community into search. If you look at the Yahoo! Search results, you will see a new section that features an excerpt of the best answers to questions that are relevant to your search.

But really, how does Social Search enhance search, you ask? I think the following analogy captures the essence of that synergy. There are a number of raw materials required for the creation of ‘art’. The raw horsepower of machinery has made the refinement and access to these materials increasingly easier. But, no one would argue that simply blending these materials together results in art. It takes the human hands of an artist to create beauty and meaning. You need human talent to bring those raw materials together in a holistic way to create something that no machine could ever produce.

Search has increasingly become better at refining raw information into ever more useful materials. The powerful blend of Social Search with traditional search puts this material into the hands of real people and also creates something that no machine could really ever reproduce: A connection to the world’s knowledge.

Larry Cornett
Yahoo! Search

Well that’s nothing, it seems. I just found out that there are now over a million registered users on Delicious. That’s over three times as many as it had last December. Apparently there are a lot more people who think it’s as indispensable as I do.

Congrats to Joshua and the Delicious team for continuing to scale with rapidly increasing users while also adding useful features.

Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network

Delicious started out as a tool for helping you remember interesting things you find on the Web, but it quickly grew into something more: a unique online community where the actions of individuals provide very real and immediate benefits to others. When you use Delicious to bookmark and tag a Web page, you’re also automatically helping other people find that page, and you’re also contributing to a cooperative effort to make the Web more understandable.

As the Delicious community has grown, what we’ve found is that it’s not just the bookmarks that are interesting ? it’s the people, too. Delicious is filling up with people who are building collections of really interesting, relevant, timely links on a huge range of subjects. These people and their collections are every bit as interesting as the links themselves. Imagine if you could find these people as easily as you find links by searching Delicious or the Web.

Lately, we’ve really started to explore the possibilities. You may have seen the news about the network feature we launched a few months back, which lets you connect to other Delicious users. Today we’re taking things a step further. We?ve just rolled out a new network badge that makes it easy to tell people about your network from your own Web site or blog. It also gives your readers a fast and easy way to add you to their own networks. This lets Delicious users start using their network as a kind of online reputation, and it nicely complements our existing tagrolls and linkrolls. As of today we are also supplementing our typical tag suggestions with suggested users. Now when you visit the page for any active tag (for example, /popular/news), you will see a list of “active users” who are the people who are saving the most links using that tag.

Between these two features, we are continuing our efforts to make people and connections more central to the Delicious experience. We have quite a bit more planned in this regard, so stay tuned and keep letting us know what you think.

Joshua Schachter and the Delicious team

So, here’s a bunch of stuff we’ve been working on, with the help of our beta testers:

Easier access to your saved searches from the My Web 2.0 homepage
The revised homepage now provides immediate access to your 3 most recently saved pages. Search ‘memory’ is one of the most useful things about any bookmarking system (social or not) and the old homepage provided only a single link to “My Pages.” We’ve also beefed up the help on that page to make it easier for users to learn how to use the product.

Tag Search
You can now MyWeb message boards. You can read more about it on the My Web blog.

My Web to go, for all you bloggers out there
We created a badge to insert your most recently saved pages on your blogs, and you asked for a button. Now you have that, too.

Bulk editing
You can edit 20 saved pages at a time ‘ great for changing the tags on imported bookmarks.

Performance improvements
In addition, we’ve been working hard to make My Web faster and lay the foundation for future functionality. It took us a little longer than we expected over the weekend, but the good news is that all went well and we’re in good shape for what comes next.

Finally, if you hadn’t heard, Delicious has joined our family. Expect some great things as we continue to improve both services.

Please stay tuned if what you are looking for isn’t here yet. Or, tell us what you’d like to see to make My Web 2.0 easier, faster, or more suited to your daily use. Drop a comment below or head over to the My Web forum.

Thanks for using our product!
MyWeb Development Team